Sweaters as a Servive
summary
A hacked 1980s Brother knitting machine becomes a networked yarn printer: a custom USB‑to‑serial cable plus a floppy-drive emulator feeds one‑bit bitmaps, a small image‑to‑bitmap library converts PNG/JPEG/GIF, and a yarn printer API in Ruby serves files while a web form uploads images and shows button sequences. Early wins: a polka‑dot pattern, a grumpy cat and a printed doge meme knit successfully after a coffee‑cup spool workaround—coffee-cup spool fix—but full garment automation remains manual.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:05Knitting Machine
- 3:49Using a Knitting Machine
- 10:07To Send the Knitting Machine Our Own Patterns
- 12:35Step Four Was To Make Knitting Machine Image Upload Available on the Web
- 15:43Code for the Knitting
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